FLYBYGIRL is right, in this regard in particular, there is a bigger picture here that appears to be being totally ignored. The bigger picture is that the AOA is on a course of self destruction at the moment. It is slowly but certainly imploding. I am not a believer in straight statistics but the numbers in this case are a bit scary for all of us. AOA membership significantly down, a large group of pilots not even allowed to join the AOA and the financial burden on the AOA remains constant and might increase if litigation becomes involved. A management strategy might be to take the AOA to court for losses incurred by union action, this has been successfully done in much more liberal places than Hong Kong. There is a place for unions in this day and age and who will represent the pilots when the AOA fails completely. I have urged the AOA leadership for a long time to accept that this battle is lost. Stop all industrial action, change the people involved in negotiation and get back to the table. Gosh, as a gesture maybe some of the 49ers might come home as a result. There will be other times where the hope of a better outcome is more assured. I feel dreadfully sorry for all the 49ers, loyal martyrs to union ineptitude, but at this rate unless things change NONE of them will ever work again at CX.
Last edited by shortly; 15th August 2002 at 03:05.